TY - BOOK AU - Cupitt,Don TI - The meaning of the West: an apologia for secular Christianity SN - 9780334042020 (pbk.) PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - SCM Press KW - Christianity and culture KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - History KW - Secularism KW - Holy, The KW - Apologetics N1 - What is the West? -- God secularizes Himself -- The West as secularized Christianity -- The indelible -- Enlightenment values? -- Progress: the accumulated indelible -- The West as modernity -- Modernity as a state of exile -- Stories about modernity -- Scrupulosity -- Critical thinking, God and nihilism -- The western self: denial and affirmation -- The indelible dream -- The disappearance of the sacred -- Historical change, for the better -- The ethical difference -- The afterlife of Christianity ER -